Blogger DetroitWonk points out GM's investment in the riverfront area around its Renaissance Center downtown, an act being somewhat spun as environmentally sensitive and socially inclusive — an effort to become better integrated into the downtown community. The company tore down a concrete berm separating the center, bunker-like, from the rest of downtown, and replaced it with trees, ivy, flower beds and, for those who see historic events as metaphor, grassy knolls.